Four steps.
Twelve minutes.
One version of you who finally started.

Below: every step laid out, the philosophy behind each one, and real screens from the product. If you want the speed-run, scroll to the horizontal tour. If you want the why, start here.

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01 Step one · Describe your business — in two sentences

The hardest two sentences
you'll write all year.

We ask for two sentences because two is the sweet spot. One is too vague. Three becomes a pitch deck. Two forces specificity — which is exactly what the rest of the system needs to work.

The trick: be stupidly specific. Not "a coffee shop" — "a single-origin roaster in NE Portland that closes at 2pm because the owner has kids in school." The second one tells us archetype, audience, hours, geography, and values. The first one tells us nothing.

You can also paste a longer description if you have one — a one-pager, an investor memo, a Slack message to a friend. We'll find the signal.

Examples from real customer descriptions
"A neighborhood sourdough bakery in East Austin. Slow ferment, weekend hours, no shortcuts." — Hearth & Crumb · matched The Caregiver
"A monthly plant subscription for first-time plant parents who keep killing things. Low-light, low-fuss, low-judgment." — Sprout Club · matched The Innocent
"Job-management software for solo plumbers who are great at fixing things and terrible at sending invoices." — Wrench & Bill · matched The Hero
02 Step two · Pick your archetype

The most important
decision you'll never make.

GPF suggests three archetypes that fit your description. You pick one. That choice will quietly drive every downstream output — palette, voice, type, copy, even the photo style — so that the whole brand feels like one thing.

Archetypes were codified by Carl Jung in the 1950s and have been the structural backbone of every great brand book since. Nike is The Hero. Apple is The Magician. Volvo is The Caregiver. Patagonia is The Explorer. It's not a vibe — it's the load-bearing column the whole brand sits on.

Most people get this wrong on instinct. Founders pick the archetype they aspire to instead of the one that fits the business. We test for fit, not flattery.

A typical step-two screen
The Caregiver
Confidence · 92%
Selected
The Maker
Confidence · 76%
Switch →
The Sage
Confidence · 51%
Switch →

We tell you why each one matched. You can switch any time, even after generation.

When the archetype tile came back as The Caregiver, I almost laughed. Of course we were the caregiver. I'd been calling us 'the friendly bakery' for two years.

Sam Ortega · Hearth & Crumb · on the moment it clicked
03 Step three · Your foundation appears

The part where
your idea shows up.

About 28 seconds after you click Generate, the page fills in. Purpose, audience (who it's for, who it's not for), voice, tagline, palette, type, logo system, domain shortlist. All drafted from your description and archetype.

Most customers stop here for a few minutes and just look at it. This is the part that made our designer-friend cry during testing. There's a particular feeling — the first time you see your business as a real brand on a real screen — that's worth all the engineering.

You can edit anything inline (click and type), regenerate any piece individually (just the logo, just the voice, just the tagline), or regenerate the whole thing with a different archetype. Nothing is precious. Nothing is locked.

Brand foundation · Hearth & Crumb Drafted · 28s
The Caregiver
Purpose

A world where bread is made the way it used to be.

Tagline

Bread. Made well. Sold out by noon.

Who it's for

The Returning Regular
Lives nearby, knows the staff, comes for the ritual.

Who it's not for

The Trend Chaser
Wants the next thing. Not what's been here.

Palette
04 Step four · Publish everywhere

One brand.
Every surface.

Once you're happy with the foundation, GPF pushes it out to every surface in parallel. A live homepage you can publish to your domain. A print kit (cards, signage, packaging). A social media kit sized for every channel. A PDF brand book you can hand to anyone who needs to know what your brand is.

Update anything in the foundation and it propagates everywhere — your site, your cards, your social — in seconds. No more "we updated the logo but forgot the menu."

Export to PDF, SVG, Figma, WordPress, plain HTML, or push live to a custom domain. Hand off to a designer if you want to evolve it further. Everything is yours, fully licensed, forever.

Site builder

Live homepage

Drag-and-drop blocks, publish to your domain in one click.

Print studio

Cards · signage · menus

Print-ready PDFs, or on-demand fulfillment to your door.

Social kit

Every channel

Avatar, banner, post templates — sized and on-brand by default.

Domain

Claim & connect

Buy through us at cost, or BYO domain. We set up DNS.

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05 Chapter five · The real screens, side by side

Scroll horizontally. These are not mockups — they're the actual product, populated with sample data.

Step 01 / 04

Describe your business

Two sentences. Be specific.

187 / 280 chars
🥐 Bakery 🐕 Dog-walking ☕ Coffee roaster
Step 02 / 04

Pick your archetype

GPF suggests 3 that fit. Pick the one that feels right.

The Caregiver Warm, dependable, neighborhood-first.
92% match
The Maker Crafty, hands-on, quietly proud.
76% match
The Sage Knowledgeable, patient, teaches.
51% match
Step 03 / 04

Your foundation appears

The Caregiver
Purpose

A world where bread is made the way it used to be.

Palette
Voice
Warm Direct Unhurried Generous
Step 04 / 04

Publish everywhere

Your foundation pushes to every surface in parallel.

Build site → AI homepage assembler
Print kit → Cards, signage, menus
Claim domain → hearthandcrumb.co
Social kit → Avatar, banner, posts
Result · live site

hearthandcrumb.co

Published · 12:04 PM
hearth & crumb

Bread.
Made well.
Sold out by noon.

A neighborhood sourdough bakery in East Austin. Open Saturdays & Sundays, 8am until we're out.

This weekend
Country loaf
Rye
Babka

Scroll horizontally to see each step

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06 Chapter six · What you can do after

Then you can
actually use it.

Nothing's locked. Edit anything. Regenerate any module. Hand off files. Everything is yours, with a full perpetual license.

Edit any output Inline-editable everywhere. No round-trip.
Regenerate per piece Just the logo. Just the palette. Just the copy.
Hand off to a designer Export Figma, SVG, AI. Source files included.
Export everywhere PDF, ZIP, Figma, GitHub, WordPress theme.
07 Chapter seven · The math, honestly

From idea to launch.
Without the agency.

Same scope. The numbers below come from audited customer projects in Q1 2026.

The agency route

$14k

3 months · 6 meetings

  • Hire an agency
  • Discovery & brief
  • Mood boards
  • Logo rounds (1, 2, 3)
  • Foundation document
  • Domain hunting
  • Site build (separate team)
  • Print design

With GPF

$39/mo

12 minutes · zero meetings

  • Describe your business
  • AI matches archetype
  • Foundation doc drafted
  • Logo, palette, type system
  • Domain shortlist (available)
  • Homepage assembled
  • Print & social kits
  • Publish & iterate forever

Two sentences in.
A whole brand out.

Begin free — no card. Generate a full brand foundation in the next twelve minutes.